Air Algerie crash: Sole Brit on board tragic flight named as David Morgan in leaked passenger manifest

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it is offering his family consular support "at this tragic time"

Tragic: A family of 10 are believed to be among those killed in the disaster (Photo: Reuters)

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The sole Brit on board tragic Air Algerie flight AH 5107 has been named.

David Morgan was among the 116 people killed when the plane crashed in the Sahara, according to a leaked passenger manifest.

The document was published on the pan-African news website koaci.com.

A Foreign Office spokesman had earlier confirmed the death of a British man on board the flight, adding: "We are providing consular support to his family at this tragic time."

A French family of 10 are also among the dead.

Bernard Reynaud and his family were flying back to France after staying with friends in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, from where the ill-fated Flight AH5017 took off from before plummeting into the desert sands in Mali.

Bertrand Gineste, a 55-year-old chemist from the town of Gueret was flying with wife Veronique, and their three children, aged between 14 and 19.

They were all members of a development organisation in Burkina Faso.

Jean-Jacques Dupre, a friend of Mr Reynaud’s, said: "It’s difficult, very difficult, he was an exceptional friend. We worked together for 20 years, and we’ve been friends for 40 years, we studied together."

Mr Gineste employed 23 people at his Marche pharmacy in Gueret, and was also treasurer of a group aiding Gueret-Zitenga, a department in Burkina twinned with the French town.

French president Francois Hollande said there were no survivors as the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria’s flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off.

French troops have now been sent to secure the wreckage site as President Hollande said terrorism could not be ruled out.

“We have not excluded any hypothesis," he added.

But Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve suggested the tragedy was likely due to bad weather.

Mr Cazeneuve said: “We think the plane went down due to weather conditions, but no hypothesis can be excluded as long as we don’t have the results of an investigation.

“Terrorist groups are in the zone,” he said. “We know these groups are hostile to Western interests.”

Mr Hollande also announced one of the aircraft’s two black boxes has been found in the wreckage, in the Gossi region near the border with Burkina Faso. It was being taken to the northern Mali city of Gao.

A French Reaper drone based in Niger confirmed the wreckage site, where the aircraft was described as “disintegrated” and debris “in an apparently small area”.